Miranda Metcalf is the new intern from the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art / National Portrait Gallery Library. Miranda recently graduated from the University of Washington in more »
Author: Doug Litts
Doug Litts is the head of the Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery Library.
Bobrick, Benson. Master of War: The Life of General George H. Thomas. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. Although during his time he was considered by some to be the more »
Recto: Charles F. Blauvelt (born New York, NY, 1824; died Greenwich, CT,1900) Verso: Carte-de-visite photographer: H. G. DeBurlo, Philadelphia, PA Charles Blauvelt was a notable portrait and genre painter in more »
Monroe, Gary. The Highwaymen Murals: Al Black's Concrete Dreams. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2009. In 1960, a group of African American artists in Florida with no formal training more »
Alexander Lawrie (born New York, NY, 1828; died Lafayette, IN, 1917) Alexander Lawrie, son of a Scottish immigrant, started his artistic career by apprenticing as a wood engraver at the more »
Recto: Abraham Woodside (born Philadelphia, PA, 1819; died Philadelphia, PA,1853) Verso: Carte-de-visite photographer: H. G. DeBurlo, Philadelphia, PA Abraham Woodside was a prominent artist in Philadephia in the mid-nineteenth century. more »
Looking for Mushrooms: Beat Poets, Hippies, Funk, Minimal Art; San Francisco 1955-1968. Cologne, Germany: Museum Ludwig, 2008. This catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne focuses more »